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Re: Mailing-list split

 


On 04/27/2012 06:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> To avoid Launchpad list slowness, we would run the new openstack-dev
>>> list off lists.openstack.org. Given the potential hassle of dealing with
>>> spam and delivery issues on mission-critical MLs, we are looking into
>>> the possibility of outsourcing the maintenance of lists.openstack.org to
>>> a group with established expertise running mailman instances. Please let
>>> us know ASAP if you could offer such services. We are not married to
>>> mailman either -- if an alternative service offers good performance and
>>> better integration (like OpenID-based subscription to integrate with our
>>> SSO), we would definitely consider it.
>>
>> FYI for libvirt mailing lists we are using the GNU project's spam
>> filter:
>>
>>   https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ListHelperAntiSpam
> 
> I think the procedure documented there works fine for gnu projects,
> but that something special has to be done for projects hosted elsewhere.
> I'll check and get back to you.

Awesome - and thanks. It's entirely possible that our Jim Blair already
knows a decent amount of that, as he set up most of the FSF's mail and
mailing list infrastructure, iirc. BUT - that was several years ago, so
it's also possible something has changed. :)

>> Thanks to this we get essentially zero spam on our mailing lists,
>> with practically no burden on / work required by our list admins.
>> Jim Meyering (CC'd) set it up for us originally & may have some
>> recommendations or tips if OpenStack want to make use of it too.
> 
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